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Re:Pirate Party Germany now at 8% in nationwide polls by gersh on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:00PM (#3076750)
What are their IP policies? Do they want to abolish all copyrights and patents? Do they just want shorter terms?
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Re:Pirate Party Germany now at 8% in nationwide polls by sqrt2 on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:21PM (#3076837)
According to their latest election manifesto (https://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundestagswahl_2009/Wahlprogra...) their main points are:

* legalisation of non-commercial copying

* prohibition of DRM technologies

* right to derive from existing works

* reduction of copyright terms (expiration with death of the author or earlier)

* (continued) prohibition of patents on software, business models, genes and seeds

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Re:Pirate Party Germany now at 8% in nationwide polls by treo on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:10PM (#3076796)
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...

This are their current goals. They want to allow private copying. So selling the copy would still be illegal.

Concerning patents: "We reject patents unanimously onto organisms and genes on business ideas and also to software"

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